Impact of climate change hits home

Global warming is real and it is already impacting on us and the natural systems on which we depend, says Frank McGovern.

LAST year’s prolonged autumn and the flooding that recently devastated coastal communities are a part of a wider pattern of global change. Around the world people are experiencing similar and related changes.

On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published the most comprehensive analysis of these changes at, global and regional scales, ever compiled.